The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-18
TRYING TO GEORGE CLEVELAND.

The most remarkable piece of impu
dence of this year, with its long list o
surprises and strange happenings, is thu
reported action of branch of the Farm
era Alliance in Indiana last Saturday
night. 1t is hard to believe the account
J the Associated Press makes of the re5o
lutions passed by that body of farmers
In the first place the whole premise for
their action was wrong. The presidential
tour to the west and south is not, in any
sense, an electioneering tour The trip Is
not one devised by the president, his
cabinet or leaders of the democratic
party. The president goes west not
upon his own vOlition, but because
of the earnest and repeated invitations of
the people Of st. Louis and Missouri,
which invitations have lately been second
ed and Endorsed by large western cities,
through which Cleveland must pass on his
way to Missouri. The president visits
the south,or rather Georgia,on the earnest
solicitation of the people of Atlanta. So
that Clevelandi in these two trips, does not
appear before the nation in the role of an
office seeker; he is simply the president of
the United States, yielding himself up to
the wishes of two great sec
tions of the vast territory over which
he has been chosen to preside, AMI about
which sections of the country he personally
knows nothing, having never visited either
of them. The Farmers Alliance of Boyd
county, Indiana, was, then, wrong in
choosing its ground of attack upon the
president, and this himsy excuse for such
an attack gives rise to the suspicion that
it was rather the chance to attack, than
any good reason for it, that they desired.
We know not how to account for this
impudence and insOlence upon the part
of this class of men, who are so generally |
to be depended upon as the stalwart
yeomanry, the strong, conservative
body of nation, other than
because they are, in that
particular county alliance mainly COM
posed of members of the Grand Army of
The Republic, or have been strangely in
luenced by the designing and irresponsi-
Die men of chat order, of which class it is
low of late discovered the Grand Army of
he Republic has, unfortunately, goodly
number of souls. For the representatives
If no other body of men in the union
lave had the poor taste and contemplate
emerity to attack the president as have
futile and Fairchild. We do not hold the
Whole body of the Grand Army of the
Republic responsible for the mouthings
II these contemplate specimens of man
lood, for we do not believe they represent
he true sentiments of the great body of
he Grand Army of the Republic, which,
8 whole, is made up for the
lost part of true and noble men. But
he Grand Army of the Republic have not
sbuked these leaders of theirs, as they
hould have done, and we now find this
anne spirit of discourtesy and disrespect
preading, and little county alliance of
lrmers demanding of the president of the
nited States that he resign the chief
lagistracy of the nation before they will
low him to visit the people Of the west
IN and southern states. Truly, things
ave come to pretty pass. Cleveland
as forbidden by futile and Fairchild to
o to st. Louis at the time of the Grand
rmy of the Republic reunion there, and
ow Farmers Alliance of In
lana tells him he shall not go
} st. Louis later in the fall
n few days visit, unless he resign the
Had we not better get the
ext congress to say what the president
lall eat and drink, and where withal he
lall be clothed? If such shames grow
,mmon, this nation will have no respect
n its own rulers, and other nations will
Did us in supreme contempt. Let us
'gin to draw the lines and cut off such
npudent filings at the head of this great
eople; the nation cannot afford longer
submit to such outrages-its dignity is
cling most sadly compromised.